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Photo credit: American Red Cross Flickr Volunteers from the American Red Cross have been hard at work responding to flooding that has affected more than 18,000 homes in Colorado and caused evacuations in New Mexico and Texas. While the area braces f...

Duct tape wallets, handmade dog biscuits and soap as well as homemade terrariums are just few of the items participants from the Next Great Entrepreneur Summer Camps at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary manufactured and sold to raise money for two char...

Guest post by Sandra Brunner, a member of the Canadian Red Cross Social Team and a Red Cross digital volunteer I recently had to update my CPR/AED skills to include infants, as I was teaching mom and baby Pilates classes. I thought it would also b...

We are always encouraging people to be Red Cross Ready for emergencies and disasters; in fact, we even have a Disaster Preparedness Calculator Facebook app for just that purpose! In Saskatchewan we work closely with Stantec and recently helped...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. MALI: Severe flooding is causing chaos across several countries in the Sahel region of Africa. To date, more than 200,000people have been a...

In response to the ongoing crisis in Syria, the Red Cross is in the midst of setting up a field hospital in Jordan to provide health care for Syrian refugees who have fled their home as a result of the conflict. To date, 1.9 million people have b...

We all have different stories of what drew us to work with the Red Cross. Chiran Livera, a Canadian aid worker currently working for the IFRC, was drawn to international aid work due to his love for travel and his desire to help those affected by d...

[slideshow] From August 1 to 25, Walmart stores across Canada are participating in an annual fundraising campaign in support of Canadian Red Cross. The partnership between Canadian Red Cross and Walmart raises millions of dollars to support Red Cr...